LUIGI BUSATTI (1763-1821)

AN ALBUM OF 88 LANDSCAPE STUDIES, BOTH CAPRICCI AND TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEWS, INCLUDING 25 STUDIES OF IDENTIFIED ROMAN VILLAS
Signed inside the cover Luigi Busatti, variously inscribed throughout with notes on subjects
Variously pencil, pen, black ink and grey and coloured washes, within a binding of decorated boards, quarter calf
Each page: 29.5 x 20 cm
 
 
 
 
 
We are grateful to Dr Roberta Olson for identifying the signature at the front of this album. 
 
Busatti was a painter and scenic designer from Bologna. He trained under Vincenzo Martinelli, showing an early aptitude for landscape draughtsmanship. His commissions included frescoes in the Palazzo Hercolani in Bologna, and in the Certosa, where he decorated the monument to Vincenzo Martinelli, collaborating with the painter Pietro Fancelli. Busatti also designed theatrical scenery for the Bolognese Teatro Zagnoni, Teatro Comunale, Nuovo Teatro del Corso, and the Teatro Contavalli, and in Florence for the Teatro della Pergola. Later on in his career, he taught landscape art at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna.